February 2012
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“A courtroom wasn’t the place to find truth. Neither was a newspaper. How could...”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“All her life Connie would veer between wanting to understand Parley and...”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface.”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“Even when everything had fallen apart, how lovely it was to learn.”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“All around her was the curdled essence of this clever man, who found ways to...”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“Plants are so grateful,” he said, looking around him. “You give them water and...”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“Do we take on anger the way we take on our names?”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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He was one of those English people who wished he wasn’t, and it stirred her sympathy that he didn’t like himself any more than she liked him. He was a troubled man who wanted to be un homme trouble.
-Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“Children cannot believe that adults have forgotten what it’s like to be a child....”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a...”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
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“This was the other problem with living ones: They were separate, always...”
– Lauren Oliver (Liesl & Po)
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“I can never tell when she’s over the party; the party’s usually all...”
– Courtney Summers (Some Girls Are)
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“The thing about being drunk is people want to congratulate you for it, often in...”
– Courtney Summers (Cracked Up To Be)
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“But he used to look at her like he loved her. Which I think he did. But she...”
– Mary Downing Hahn (Mister Death’s Blue-eyed Girls)
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“Because I do want. I’m not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there,...”
– Lauren Oliver (Pandemonium)
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“Imagine four years.
Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two...”
– Courtney Summers (Cracked Up To Be)